Section 01 – The Three Churches of God

What will the final church look like?

Most people have seen it as a struggling, lukewarm church that has turned from God. It is a church that He has to put through a time of tribulation in the End Times to wake it up. They see it as the lukewarm Laodicean church that God says He's going to spit out of His mouth because it is no good to Him.

This is the idea that people have of what the end times will look like. It is based on teachings of Bible prophecy that have been given through the years.

It has always been that way in the past where people have an idea of what the future will hold. But then God often does something unexpected. He unveils something that has been hidden away that nobody knew about. The Bible calls that a mystery.

God has done this several times through the years. He has unveiled a mystery that was hidden, until the time was right for it to be manifested.

The church of the end times falls into the exact same category. And the idea that people have had of what the final church will look like, has been hidden away from the Body of Christ until now.

Unveiling the End Times Church

God is only now beginning to unveil and reveal a mystery which has remained hidden throughout the years - what the end times church is going to look like.

By reading this book, you are going to be one of the privileged few to be firsthand witnesses of the revelation of the mystery of the end times church. It has never been seen before and it is about to be unveiled and revealed.

So before we go into all the details that are involved, I would like to first lay a bit of groundwork for you in this first section.

I want to show you how God has worked through the years; where we have come from, where we have been and where we are headed. In this way you will have an idea of exactly what to expect as we look at this new mystery of the end times church.

God has always had a plan that He has revealed through select people. And in these end times, He is going to do what He has always done right from the beginning of time.

He is raising up His chosen vessels, that He will use to reveal His plans ahead of time. He will give them the job of unveiling and revealing to everybody else His mystery and hidden plan and purpose.

So God has chosen to reveal through His end times apostles and prophets, that which is to come. He will show us that which is to be manifested, and what you are about to see in the years that lie ahead concerning the church of the end times.

Three Churches in History

There have been three churches throughout history. Well there have been two and this is the third one. I would like to show you the three main churches that God has created and worked with, so that you can understand where we fit into God's whole economy of things.

The First Church

Where was the first church? Do you have any idea? I know you are probably thinking right away,

"Well that was of course the church in the time of the apostles which was normally known as the early church, right?"

Is that what you are thinking? If so I am afraid that you are wrong. The first church existed a long time before the Acts of the Apostles. Here it is from the Word.

In Acts 7:38, Steven began to recount to the Jews their history, starting from the beginning with Abraham. We will look at that more shortly. He was speaking about Moses and this is what he said:

This is the person who was in the church in the wilderness. For the angel that spoke to him on mount Sinai along with our fathers: who received the living words of God that he gave to us.

The first church was the church in the wilderness. What church was that? It was the nation of Israel. That was the first church, but it is not the last church. It was only the first one.

How the Church Began

Let's look at how that first church came about, before we go on to consider the second church. Then finally we are going to look at the third church, which is the church of the end times.

The first church began when God looked down on mankind that had turned away from Him. It started with the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

The generations then began to spread over the earth and men became evil. God then selected for Himself Noah and his family. He chose to save them and destroy the rest of the world, and a whole new group of people were created via Noah.

God looked down on all the nations and the peoples of this world. He made a choice to choose and call out for Himself a specific group of people.

It might interest you to know that the word church, as translated in the Greek word ekklesia, means 'the called out ones'. They are the ones that have been called out, chosen and removed from amongst the whole group.

They are a select group of people. God decided to select a group of people, and He chose one man to be the federal head or the father of that new group of people.

Calling Out Abraham

As far as humanity was concerned, Adam was the federal head and the original father of the whole human race. But amongst that whole human race, God chose out one man. He reached down, picked him out and said,

"I'm going to make you a father of nations. A whole new nation of people will come from you. They will be my chosen people that I have called out for myself."

But they weren't yet called that. God had only called Abraham and told him,

"I will give this to your generation; to your seed."

God was very specific about which seed it was going to be. This was because Abraham had a son called Ishmael, who was not of the chosen seed.

God made His promise through Isaac who was the son of promise. From there it came down through Jacob, Joseph and the tribes of Israel, who became God's chosen people.

Moses the Deliverer

Those chosen people ended up in Egypt in bondage. And from there God sent one to be a deliverer; to call them out from Egypt.

Egypt in the Scriptures is always a picture of the world. So what we see happening here in the first church is actually a symbol or a picture; a very beautiful allegory of what God was going to later do in the second church.

I want you to clearly understand the purpose for the first church. We are going to study this church in a lot of detail with that view in mind. We are going to take it as an allegory; of pictures, types and principles that we can learn about and use in today's society, in the new pattern that God has for the church.

So God sent a deliverer by the name of Moses. He went in and pulled the nation of Israel (God's elect people) out of Egypt.

They now became the 'called out ones'. And as they travelled in the wilderness with Moses, they became the first church; the church in the wilderness.

From Promised Land to Captivity

So the nation of Israel came, and eventually with Joshua they went into the land that God had promised them. He had made this promise way back with Abraham already and had said to him,

"This is the land I have given you. Go and walk up and down it, but you are not going to possess it. Your descendants will possess the land."

Those descendants were the nation of Israel whom Joshua took in. We will be learning all the allegories and principles along the way of each of these people that we have mentioned.

Israel eventually came in and took the land, and many things happened with that nation. There was the time of the judges. There was the time of the kings, starting with King Saul and then King David whom God raised up.

Then there came a time when Israel just vanished away into captivity. They were captured by the Babylonians and the Assyrians. They were taken off into captivity and the nation of Israel no longer existed in the land.

After this time God brought them back for a period of restoration which you can read about in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. This takes us right through the whole of the Old Testament, and God's workings with His first church and the nation of Israel.

But God did not plan for the first church to be the final church. The nation of Israel eventually came to a place where they were no longer God's chosen people. They were no longer the called out ones and His chosen people that He was working with.

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